What’s this? It isn’t the first quad-core HTC smartphone we’ve seen running Android this month — that honor goes to the HTC Edge. This is the freshly-leaked HTC Zeta, another quad-core Ice Cream Sandwich monster.

While the Edge was thought to be packing an Nvidia Tegra 3 quad chip, the Zeta reportedly utilizes a Snapdragon chip running at a whopping 2.5GHz. This beast of a chip was promised by Qualcomm for early 2012, so it’d be right on target for a spring or summer launch of the Zeta.

In addition to its monster processor, the Zeta rocks 1GB of RAM, a 4.5-inch 720×1280 pixel display, 32GB of internal storage, an 8MP rear camera with dual LED flash and 1.3MP front-facing cam, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 support. Unlike the Edge, the Zeta looks like it’ll come with Beats Audio tech inside. Power is provided by an 1830mAh battery — beefy, to be sure, and it could offer a seriously impressive runtime. Qualcomm stated that the 28nm Snapdragon quad used 65% less power than its dual-core predecessors.

Its design is a departure from HTC’s soft, rounded corners, but it’s certainly a sharp looking phone. The capacitive buttons are a bit surprising to see rendered, what with ICS offering on-screen equivalents. Then again, the Edge leaked showing those buttons, too, so it’s not a complete shock to spot them here.

While the image above is just a render, Engadget was given the lowdown on the Zeta’s physical dimensions, too. It’s 9.8mm thick and weighs 146g. Not quite as svelte as the Galaxy Nexus, but the next Google Phone isn’t packing the same kind of power as the HTC Zeta, either.